Daily Republic: Wednesday, March 24, 2021

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FAIRFIELD — Solano is closing down on a positivity testing rate that could push the county into the orange tier far sooner than local health officials would have anticipated. Dr. Bela Matyas, the county public health officer, said in a phone interview Tuesday that the state reports a seven-day positivity testing rate of 2.2%, slightly above the yellow matyas tier threshold of 2%. Having a rate two tiers better than the current red tier status in which Solano sits would be enough to move the county into the orange tier, Matyas said.

The county sets the positivity rate, as of Tuesday, at 4.8%. Solano County uses a formula in which the testing data is delayed three days, and the state uses a formula with a seven-day delay – the latter affording a greater number of negative tests to be calculated into the results, Matyas said. If Solano County does go orange, then capacity allowances in virtually all business sectors are expanded and some businesses currently closed could reopen, including family entertainment venues such as bowling alleys (at 25% capacity), live outdoor events with modifications and smaller amusement parks.

Movie theaters and restaurants, for example, could expand customer capacity to 50%. California’s Covid-19 monitoring system designates the purple tier for counties where transmission of the novel coronavirus is considered to be widespread. Shutdown orders for counties in the purple tier are the most severe. The red tier is for counties with a substantial spread of the virus. The orange tier designates moderate virus transmission, while the yellow tier is reserved for counties where the spread of the virus is deemed to be minimal. Restrictions to slow the spread of the virus are eased as counties move from purple to red, red See Tier, Page A10

County tells state it is not getting fair share of vaccine Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Public Health Division has had to delay first-dose Covid-19 vaccination clinics due to a lack of supply. “We’ve seen a significant decline in the allocation of vaccine to the county in recent allocations,” Dr. Bela Matyas, Solano County public health officer, said in a statement released Monday by the county

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clinics, drastically slowing our effort to target and vaccinate our most vulnerable populations.” Matyas, in a phone interview, said the county is getting 22.5 doses of vaccines per 1,000 people, which compares to 32.6 doses going to Sonoma County, and about 29.9 doses going to San Francisco and Napa counties. Monterey County, which is often compared to Solano because

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